Fri 25th September 2015
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New gTLD Totals This Week .Rent 540; .Tickets 523; .Courses 447 - Three new TLD extensions went live this week and here are the numbers .Rent which was bought to you by the .XYZ guys has around 540 registrations. .Tickets which is a one off registry, has a retail cost of around $500 per domain and has 523 registrations. .Courses  which was sponsored by OPEN UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD which honestly I don’t know much about has 447 registrations All of these numbers include Sunrise registrations by trademark holders and any landrush or any Early Access periods ... read more ...
 
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The new and softened Expired Domains Report! - Now with SnapNames, too. Domains expire all over the place, day in day out. Some expirations are shadowed by backorders, which can lead to auctions. Depending on the TLD, the registrar, and – yes – even chance, those auctions may take place at NameJet or at another venue … like SnapNames, which will be contributing sales data to these reports henceforward. Scroll down, and say hello! Some readers may remember that, until last December, most of the results I reported in these articles came from ... read more ...
 
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InternetX Lambo Races to First Place - Car finishes first…at first. This past weekend the InternetX race team had strong podium finishes at the ADAC GT Masters in Zandvoort. InterNetX Reiter Engineering had two cars (initially) place in first and third place. Here’s a picture: Unfortunately, after the race, a 30 second penalty was inflicted for a breach of rules after the safety car phase. I’m not entirely sure what that means. But I heard an unsubstantiated rumor that .Club CEO Colin Campbell was seen running around throwing ... read more ...
 
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.Top Adds Over 75k Domains In 2 Days Moving Into 2nd Place For All New gTLD's -   The .TOP registry has been on fire adding over 75,000 domain name registration in the past two days According to RegistrarStats.com .Top now has over 362,000 domains registered moving past .Science and is now only 2nd to .XYZ as the top registered new gTLD domain name extensions. Yesterday according to RegistrarStats.com .Top picked up over 42,000 registrations and as you can see from the chart (also courtesy of RegistrarStats.com) had just around 220,000 registrations at the end of August. I ... read more ...
 
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Ashley Madison takes down WasHeOnAshleyMadison.com - Arbitration panel awards domain name to dating site owner. Avid Dating Life Inc, the company that operates the AshleyMadison.com site for affair dating, has successfully convinced an arbitration panelist that it should get the domain name WasHeOnAshleyMadison.com. Avid Dating Life filed a UDRP with the World Intellectual Property Organization, arguing that the registrant of the domain name was cybersquatting. Panelist John Swinson agreed. The domain name was registered to someone listed as “Calico ... read more ...
 
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DomainSherpa publisher invests in domain investment height Efty - Deal will help Efty gain exposure. Michael Cyger, publisher of DomainSherpa, has invested in domain name investment platform Efty. In addition to the investment, Cyger will work with the company to build and promote the service. Think of Efty as a control center for your domain name business. After uploading a list of domains to the service, you can track renewals, parking revenue and sales. You can also set up landing pages for your domains through Efty, giving you more control over “for sale” ... read more ...
 
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In a Rare Loss; Philip Morris Loses UDRP On New gTLD Domain Marlboro.Party - Philip Morris just lost a UDRP on the new gTLD domain name marlboro.party The disputed domain name was registered on February 18, 2015 and the domain owner represented himself in the suit and claimed he registered this domain and hundreds of other as a Geographic domain such as Marlboro, New jersey rather than anything to do with the cigarette brand. Here are the highlights: The Complainant contends that the Respondent has registered and used the disputed domain name in bad faith with full knowledge ... read more ...
 
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Adidas Announces "Sport Infinity" Zero Waste, Didn't Secure Domain & It's Cheap - Adidas announced a new zero-waste sporting project, made of a “inexhaustible 3-D super-material” that would prevent the products from ever being thrown away. The name of it is Sport Infinity. Interestingly, Adidas has yet to secure the matching domain name: SportInfinity.com,  is listed for sale on a buy now basis for just $1,999 on GoDaddy.com According to the article: “Sport Infinity, its plan for a new breed of sporting goods that will never be thrown away. Instead, soccer players will ... read more ...
 
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N+1 Singer Reaffirms "corporate" Rating for Minds + Machines Group (MMX) - N+1 Singer restated their corporate rating on shares of Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) in a research report released on Tuesday morning, Analyst Ratings.Net reports. In other news, insider Elliott,Guy bought 650,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, September 23rd. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 8 ($0.12) per share, for a total transaction of £52,000 ($80,732.81). Shares of Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) opened at 8.50 ... read more ...
 
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Elliott,Guy Acquires 650000 Shares of Minds + Machines Group Stock (MMX) - Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) insider Elliott,Guy bought 650,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, September 23rd. The shares were purchased at an average price of GBX 8 ($0.12) per share, for a total transaction of £52,000 ($80,732.81). Minds + Machines Group (LON:MMX) opened at 8.50 on Friday. The company’s market cap is GBX 71.06 million. Minds + Machines Group has a 52 week low of GBX 6.75 and a 52 week high of GBX 12.50. The stock has a 50 day moving ... read more ...
 
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¿Se imagina?, todos administramos Internet - Es un complejo ecosistema de discusiones y tensiones que se recoge bajo el nombre de gobernanza de Internet. De un lado, hay organizaciones técnicas (ICANN, IANA o ISOC por ejemplo) que juegan un rol operativo - con importantes debates como que estén ubicadas en EEUU y polémicas para que pasen a organismos como ONU-. De otro, está la dimensión política del “Internet Governance Forum” que reúne anualmente a gobiernos, empresas, academia, técnicos y sociedad civil, dentro del ... read more ...
Thu 24th September 2015
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Male encouragement association nailed for RDNH over Maximize.com - Nucell, LLC, seller of a “male enhancement” product, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Maximize.com A three person Czech Arbitration Court panel wrote a scathing finding of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH), and it was warranted. The owner of the domain name bought it in 2008 for $10,000. The complainant, which may not have been an active company at the time, started harassing the domain name owner a few years later, according to the decision. It doesn’t ... read more ...
 
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Blog: Maintaining Control of Your Brand Among 1200 New gTLDs - The authors of every successful business strategy know that a company must protect its trade marks and its brand from the outset.  The primary means of doing so is to register trade marks in each of the territories in which the company does or intends to do business, but the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and its minimal barriers to entry make protecting a mark online seem like a much more difficult task.  And while ICANN’s introduction of 1,200 new top-level domains (the string to the ... read more ...
 
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Calendrier des gTLDs – Semaine du 28 septembre au 4 octobre 2015 -   Partager cet article :D’importantes extensions rythment le calendrier de cette semaine. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Ouverture période Sunrise :01/10 – .kyotoFermeture période Sunrise :28/09 – .law28/09 – .abogado01/10 – .sex03/10 – .filmFermeture période EAP :28/09 – .college03/10 – .filmOuverture à tous :29/09 – .college24/09 – .miamiSi vous êtes intéressé, SafeBrands est ... read more ...
 
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Publicly Traded Co. Registers 44 Domains Calling Donald Trump a Bully Among Other Things - Symform, Inc. which was acquired by Quantum Corporation for $500,000 in 2014, registered 44 domain names at corporate domain name registrar MarkMonitor according to whois records yesterday, all relating to US presidential candidate Donald Trump in less than a flattering fashion. Quantum Corporation is a publicly traded company on NYSE: QTM Qauntum has a market cap of $207 Million. Both Symform and Quantum seem to be in the cloud storage business. Donald Trump is a registered trademark Trump is also ... read more ...
 
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Maintaining control of your brand among 1200 new gTLDs - The authors of every successful business strategy know that a company must protect its trade marks and its brand from the outset.  The primary means of doing so is to register trade marks in each of the territories in which the company does or intends to do business, but the ubiquitous nature of the Internet and its minimal barriers to entry make protecting a mark online seem like a much more difficult task.  And while ICANN’s introduction of 1,200 new top-level domains (the string to the right ... read more ...
 
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1&1's new .com promotional price: Free - Forget 99 cents, these domains are now free. Domain name registrars often use discounted prices to get new customers. This is especially the case with their Google Adwords ads, where registrars frequently offer .com domains as loss leaders to get a new customer. 11 has been particularly aggressive, offering $.99 cent .com domain names on its site and in search ads. (The company has a history of investing up front for new customers. It launched with multi-page ads in huge publications promoting free ... read more ...
 
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Trademark protection patterns in the new gTLDs environment: an infographic - Tim Lince The ongoing gTLD rollout has had a significant impact on online trademark protection strategies, with trademark counsel grappling with new rights protection mechanisms and the question of how to stretch budgets to ensure that brand integrity is maintained. Therefore, to mark the release of ICANN’s revised Rights Protection Mechanism Review report, ... read more ...
 
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NameDrive owner rising new startup in Austin - Greg Manriquez launching Videotape app. NameDrive founder Greg Manriquez, who sold the domain parking company to KeyDrive, is working on his next startup. Videotape is an app that allows you to easily add your own video or audio to another video and share it. There are a number of interesting use cases for this, including adding commentary to a video and sharing it on a blog or social media, or adding a short promotional message to a video. Manriquez is self-funding the startup, which has an office ... read more ...
 
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Associação de ccTLD lusófonos é uma oportunidade para a economia - A Associação de Registries de Língua Portuguesa (LusNIC) foi formalmente constituída esta quarta-feira, vésperas do Dia Europeu das Línguas. A nova associação das entidades responsáveis pela gestão dos domínios de topo de língua portuguesa irá contribuir para que o universo da língua portuguesa na Internet se torne “mais forte tecnicamente e em matéria de segurança, contribuindo para o crescimento económico” dos países em causa, assinala Luísa Gueifão, presidente ... read more ...
 
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Google Threatens To Block Repeat Offenders of the Webmaster Guidelines - In a blog post yesterday Google warned sites that volatile Google’s Webmaster Guidelines repeatedly can be barred from the search engine results pages (SERPs) permanently. “In order to protect the quality of our search results, we take automated and manual actions against sites that violate our Webmaster Guidelines. When your site has a manual action taken, you can confirm in the [Manual Actions] page in Search Console which part of your site the action was taken and why. After fixing the site, ... read more ...
 
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The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation Files 7 Separate UDRP - The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation has filed 7 separate UDRP’s this year the most recent one was filed yesterday. The company owns and operate its website under the domain name BrooklynBrewery.com The company has a Federally Registered Trademark for the term “Brooklyn Brewery”     I searched the USPTO and did not find any trademark for the term Brooklyn Beer: Here are 5 pending domain names on which The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation has filed UDRP on: BrooklynBeer.com BrooklynBeers.com BrooklynAle.com BrooklynBrew.com BrooklynBrews.com The ... read more ...
 
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Volkswagen registers domain names associated to emissions scandal - Domain names might be used to provide updates and recall information. Auto maker Volkswagen has registered a handful of domain names related to the diesel emissions scandal. The names don’t seem defensive and could be used to disseminate information about what it is doing in the wake of the revelations that it outfitted cars with software to outsmart emissions tests. [Update 9/24/15 5:20 PM: The nameservers for the domains have been moved to Rackspace and if you visit them you’ll get a login ... read more ...
 
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The DNA Launches Its Own YouTube Channel With Interviews With "Industry Leaders" - The DNA trade association launched a YouTube channel with video’s from “DNA “Industry Leaders” including; Becky Burr of Neustar; Roland LaPlante of Afilias; Roelof Meijer CEO of the company that runs the .nl ccTLD; Jodee Rich of .CEO, .Best  and .Kred and Jeff Sass of .Club The video are also streaming from DNA’s website here The DNA YouTube Channel is here. Here are direct links for each interview: Becky BurrRoland LaPlanteRoelof MeijerJodee RichJeff Sass     ... read more ...
Wed 23rd September 2015
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SRL: InterNetX Corp. launches next Business Extension - Regensburg/Miami – InterNetX Corp. launches another domain extension for a corporate identifier: The top level domain .SRL is aimed mainly at companies from Spanish and Italian speaking countries, registered under the legal form S.R.L. – similarly to an LLC in the US. As of September 22, 15:00 (UTC), trademark owners can register domains matching their trademarks. After the launch of .LTDA, .SRL is the second domain extension of InterNetX Corp. which has been conceived specifically ... read more ...